portrayals of these five, so much like jim crow of the early 20th century and not a modern progressive city. she said she became outraged, we became so looking over her shoulder as she turned this into a book published this year. as she was writing it, david mcmahon and i had the privilege of looking over her shoulder saying wow this is a film and we need to get into it. >> i hear the pride of a father as well as the calm vision of a documentarian. race runs like a threat through our history. >> i don't think the cops said there's some black guys, let's get them. in our society because of race and distinctions made on race, individuals become expendable. the story was just so outrageous the 1980's, the city was falling apart. we believed the crazy story. they had this guy, two days before the real rapist and forget to follow through. he went on oh to rape and maim a woman that summer. they still didn't try to walk over any of this evidence. the kids were subjected to interrogation for 30 hours a round robin circular firing squad and they all imply indicated themselves and didn't mean to. th